 Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.  Choosing a Lifework - Страница 103по Lewis Ransom Fiske - 1899 - 227 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 страници
...which is governed by the same laws and customs. MUNICIPAL law, thus understood, is properly denned to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power " in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what " is wrong (5)." Let us endeavour to explain... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 страници
...essential ingredients, diiobedience and punUhment. Municipal law, it by Uie tame great comraentator defined to be " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state ; commanding what is right, and prohibiting what a wrong." The latter clause of this sentence... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - 1817 - 622 страници
...legislative act, and every sword which they present, as the reward of valour, becomes a law of the land!—a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power of the state! If you inspect the particular act in question, you find that it possesses every quality of a contract,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 406 страници
...ingredients, disobedience and punishment. Municipal law is, by the same great commentator, defined to be " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state; commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." The latter clause of this sentence... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 408 страници
...ingredients, disobedience and punishment. Municipal law is, by the same great commentator, defined to be " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state; commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." The latter clause of this sentence... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 страници
...which is governed by the same laws and customs. Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be, " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by " the supreme power, in a state, commanding what " is right and prohibiting what is wrong." The political writers of antiquity... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 страници
...MERE ACT OF THE PARTIES. AT the opening of these commentaries • municipal law was in general defined to be, " a rule of civil conduct, prescribed " by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is " right, and prohibiting what is wrong b." From hence therefore it followed,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1827 - 916 страници
...which is governed by the same laws and customs. Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be "a rule of •• civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding " what is right and prohibiting what is wrong." • Let us endeavour to explain... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 страници
...societies,' the learned Mr Justice Blackstone says, in his Commentaries, vol. ip 34, ' is properly defined to be, a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.' It must be apparent, therefore,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1827 - 682 страници
...defined by a writer, whose definitions especially have been the theme of almost universal panegyric, " to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a State." In our system, the legislature of a State is the supreme power, in all cases where its... | |
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